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For the second year in a row, engineering students from Monash's Gippsland campus have won the Concrete Institute of Australia's Concrete Beam Competition.
The three final-year students, John Fascio (Morwell), Adam Brunskill (Traralgon) and Bradley Toyne (Trafalgar), pitted their creative talents against students from all other Victorian universities to come up with the lightest and strongest beam.
Their winning beam spanned 1.1 metres and could support a one ton load at mid-span. Bradley Toyne (pictured) aligns a concrete beam at Monash's structural testing labs.
State
Health Minister Rob Knowles recently launched the Centre for Developmental Disability
Health Victoria, a new targeted research, education and clinical healthcare
service managed by Monash.
The Oakleigh-based centre, which started operating this year, is a joint initiative of Monash's Department of Community Medicine and General Practice and the University of Melbourne's Department of General Practice and Public Health. It is funded by the Victorian Department of Human Services.
The centre's key aim is to improve the quality of health care available to people with developmental disabilities throughout Victoria and to promote healthcare issues among medical professionals and other health workers and service providers.
Acting head of CDDHV and senior lecturer Dr Robert Davis said the centre focused on three main facets: clinical services, educational programs and research.
Research projects currently under way include:
In terms of clinical services, the centre offers consultation services and support to GPs across Victoria who have patients with developmental disabilities. It also operates a multidisciplinary consultancy service within the Department of Human Services' Behaviour Intervention Support Team.
Dr Davis said educational programs and packages developed at the centre focused on providing further education, training and professional development for practitioners and healthcare workers with a special interest in the field of developmental disability.
The CDDHV is also responsible for the development disability curricula for medical students at both Monash and Melbourne universities.
Pictured above: Mr Rob Knowles launches the CDDHV as Dr Davis
(left)
and Professor Leon Piterman, head of Monash's Department of
Community Medicine and General Practice, look on.
Monash vice-chancellor Professor David Robinson will this Saturday (17 0ctober) officially open the new Centre for Rural Health based at the Latrobe Regional Hospital, Gippsland.
The opening coincides with a major national conference on rural health research being hosted by the centre to encourage research into the issues facing rural health delivery.
The conference has attracted health professionals from around Victoria and interstate.
Centre for Rural Health head Professor Roger Strasser said research into rural health issues was urgently needed.
"The aim of the conference is to demonstrate to health workers in rural areas that research should be done and, more importantly, can be done," Professor Strasser said.
"There are many pressures on rural health professionals these days, and many feel that they cannot undertake research.
"Unfortunately, that perception can also discourage people from practising in rural and regional areas.
"However, this conference will demonstrate that this is not the case. There are funds available, and there have been some excellent research projects undertaken in recent times."
The conference will include sessions on how to best use information technology, identifying research issues that will make a difference, and how to access appropriate funding.
Keynote speaker and Welsh rural health expert Dr John Wynn-Jones, from the Institute of Rural Health in Wales, will talk about rural health research in Europe. Case studies of research undertaken through Monash's Centre for Rural Health will also be presented.
For further information or conference details, contact Ms Nola Howe on (03) 5173 8203.
The School of Business Systems is hosting a free half-day conference on the millennium bug on 27 October at the Clayton campus.
The conference, 'The Millennium Bug - Another Titanic? Is it too late?', presents strategies for addressing the year 2000 problem.
The conference will be held from 8.45 am to 12.30 pm in C1 lecture theatre. To register, email Raymond@bs.monash.edu.au or see http://www3.bs.monash.edu.au/y2k/conference.htm
Melbourne's Counsul General de France, Mr Rollon Mouchel-Blaisot, officially opened the Monash Rare Books Section's latest exhibition, French Drama, last Wednesday night.
The exhibition, in the Main Library on Clayton campus, runs until February. It is drawn from the section's extensive holdings of early French books and emphasises the work of French dramatists.
On display are early editions of Moliere, Corneille, Racine and many other 17th and 18th-century writers. As well, there are examples of first editions of many of the notable names of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The exhibition is open daily during library opening hours.
Russian pianist Yuri Rozum's performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 on Saturday 17 October at the Clayton campus promises to be one of the most exciting musical events of the year, according to Monash's concert manager Mr Larry Boyd.
Rozum is returning to the Robert Blackwood Hall to perform in the university's end-of-year concert, The Sacred and the Profane. He will also give a recital on Wednesday 21 October in the Music Auditorium.
"The Monash concert will be the only opportunity for Australian audiences to hear Rozum in 1998. He will be in Melbourne for just one week, owing to commitments in Germany and Northern Europe," Mr Boyd said.
"Previously, Rozum has thrilled audiences with his performances of the Rachmaninov piano concertos Nos 1 and 2 at the Robert Blackwood Hall with the New Monash Orchestra.
"His forthcoming visit has generated significant interest, particularly after the widespread acclaim he received during last year's Melbourne Festival."
The second half of the Monash concert features one of the most popular works of the 20th century - Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. The concert features an orchestra of more than 100, and massed choirs include the university's Viva Voce and Monash Women's Choir as well as the Victoria Chorale, Wesley Adult Choir and Victorian Boys Choir.
Seats are still available, but audiences are advised to pre-purchase tickets to avoid long queues on the night. For tickets, contact the Monash Box Office on extn 51111.
BERWICK - The Berwick Research Group is presenting a series of lectures at the Berwick campus for students, staff and the public. The first lecture, 'An excursion into public life', will be presented by former senator and Monash adjunct professor Mr John Button, at 8 pm on 29 October in the main lecture theatre, Berwick. For further information, contact extn 47006.
CAULFIELD - Researchers from around Australia and overseas recently attended Monash's Caulfield campus for a major conference on childhood studies. The conference, 'Representing the Child', was organised by students of the Monash Postgraduate Centre, and brought together academics and researchers from a broad range of disciplines. Conference themes included childhood language and literacy, the family, mass media, sexuality and the millennial child. Monash's new masters program in childhood studies was launched at the conference. For further information, email Terry.Threadgold@arts
CLAYTON - Monash's Centre for Developmental Psychiatry is hosting a two-day conference, with workshops, from 29 to 30 October focusing on young people's health issues. Titled 'Working With Young People: Current Issues and Practice', the conference examines a range of aspects of child and adolescent mental health. It draws on the centre's clinical and research work within the Berriga House Adolescent Depression program, the Children's Support Centre for young people who have experienced sexual abuse, the PASS program for young people truanting from school and displaying other behavioural problems, and the School Refusal Clinic. Additional areas to be addressed include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other anxiety disorders. Conference workshops have been structured to help participants develop skills in these areas. For further information and registrations, contact Ms Jackie D'Cruz on 9550 1300 or email Jacqueline.Dcruz@med
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